Leeds Rumours Archive April 10 2013

10 Apr 2013 22:53:18
Sky tv betting has suspended bets on new leeds manager, either they know who its going to be, Or they've had tht many bets they don't know whos to put as fav?

There is plenty of chat saying it could be BMD but it could be that the odds were suspended because they have been up for quite a while now with no real look into who it could be. if anything is to happen, most of the time when odds are suspended, something is announced within two days. Hopefully Happy days, have a good one

Toby
MOT

Well according to a few websites, its Brian so fingers crossed.

Well I know it's not a lot to go on but McDermott isn't really odds on for any other job, where as Coyle is still linked with quite a few jobs.

No way at all will it be Poyet though, I've heard a few people say there's a £2.5m fee involved

10 Apr 2013 11:41:44
Heard a rumour RDM wanted around 25-40k a week to manage leeds. And we all know we are not going to pay them kind of wages. So rule out any high profile manager coming to ER. I think the obvious and probably cheap option is McDermott being a free agent. IMO I think we need someone with more experience and someone who is popular within Leeds. David O Leary? Gary Mac another chance? Grayson? or the best option IMO Gus Poyet. But again, can we afford him?

"So rule out any high profile manager coming to ER"

Di Matteo is already on £40K a week from Chelsea for doing nothing whatsoever, so why is he going to forego that and then have to actually DO SOMETHING for less money?

Doesn't mean all the rest are earning that sort of money.

The only one you've mentioned with more experience than McDermott is O'Leary, and we don't have anywhere near enough money for O'Leary to do anything with our squad.

Mcd has only had one managerial job at reading? Was only manager for just over a year too? All rest have had more than that.

Gus has only had one proper managerial role. I would welcome Gus with open arms, but he has got good players at Brighton and still hasn't got them out of Championship yet, I know it is only there 2nd season, so yes they are doing well but even Gus has his drawbacks. Still my first choice though haha

10 Apr 2013 14:17:10
'McD' was Reading manager from 2009-2013 not just 1 year

Expirience waaaat so taking reading to play offs then championship is not expierience I don't know what is get away from this ex leeds thing never worked in past mcd in now to stop the slide

Radebe should be given a call, would teach us how to defend properly. Very intellegent footballer, would be a great manager imo.

Basically, Leeds United board don't know what they are doing themselves let alone appoint a manager. The owners were in effect appointed by bates to sell the club on his behalf and in effect he wholesales it to them for them to break the chunks up and sell if for more money. I was in a board room at a club at an away game and sat with Shaun Harvey and Peter Lorimer. I can assure you I told them both what a shambles they had made of Leeds United. They have not invested in the team, their managerial appointments have been shambolic and they should hold their head in shame. I made the point to Shaun, when he argued that the managerial appointments were an extensive process. that name a manager of Leeds in the last 10 years that has gone onto another club only Grayson has and he got sacked from Huddersfield. They can't even attract a decent manager. Absolute joke. If I had been a little younger I would have leathered Shaun Harvey. I found him arrogant, cold and to be honest not very intelligent. Until Shaun Harvey goes. guys forget it we are doomed.

Apparently Danny Wilson has left Sheff Utd to take over. What do you think?

McD has had 3 managers jobs! Also this is the first time he's been out of work since he first took a managers job in '96!

McDermott has had 3 managerial positions since 1996. This is also the first time since '96 that he has been out of work from football, as the years he wasn't a manager he was actually in a variety of positions at Reading.

So is that what you class as 'i heard a rumour' u read it the daily star

Gary Mac tried and failed and far less experienced than McDermott, same with Grayson. McDermott would be a great appointment compared to the rubbish you named. Next you'll be naming harry kewell haha

Woking and slough were the other clubs, he also spent 9 years as chief scout at reading before taking over as gaffer, during his playing career he played abroad twice as well as for arsenal so pretty experienced in football imo plus his 2 years in charge at reading were not half bad could be a revie or a sarge in the making its there if he wants it just hope adequate funds are too!

10 Apr 2013 09:32:29
Apparrentl di matteo as turned down Leeds job as he is hoping for a bigger job offrr. I remembrr the times they was no job bigger than Leeds oh how times have changed. Come on sort it out Leeds give us Leeds fans something to cheer about fed up of all this uncertainty we need some flamboyant manager or will bring yhe passion bsck in our play and make Elland. Road a fortress again. oh for the glory days

Is this really surprising though? We can live on 'ifs' and 'maybes' and 'what we deserve' but we'll only frustrate ourselves. The job is a big one but for all the wrong reasons. We need a manager that needs to prove himself in what is undoubtedly a tough job. The old adage 'poisoned chalice' gets used often and for good reason. Who ever they get in i'll be behind them and the lads to keep us in this league.

Waiting for a bigger club that will be any team then with ambition

10 Apr 2013 08:10:52
Leeds are having issues getting a new manager because of the unpredictability of the Championship this year. The managers we are targeting want to wait to make sure we are safe before commiting to a long term contract, they see it as a bit of a career suicide job if they sign and then Leeds go down as the fans will rightly want Leeds to push straight for automatic promotion if they are in league1 which will add lots of extra pressure and mean more chance of being sacked.

10 Apr 2013 05:53:52
If we get relegated the apparent man city to offer 10 million package will soon be a 4 million package. {Ed013's Note - Sam Byram I take it}

On the condition it gets re invested into the team i'd accept 10 million for our whole team

Not worth 1 million

10 Apr 2013 03:59:21
After reading this it makes all the speculation look a bit silly now.

Chelsea are continuing to pay their ex-boss £40,000 a week under the terms of his contract, which has this season and next to run.

And Championship outfit Leeds, who sacked Neil Warnock last week, can only offer the Champions League-winning manager around £8,000 a week.

OK so who's next in the frame

MOT

Does that mean that if he got another job they would still have to pay him (a la Leeds with Fowler et al) or does it end when he gets a new job?

40k a week to do nowt or 8k a week to try and sort out the mess that is Leeds Utd. Tough decision.

10 Apr 2013 00:55:23
looks like GFH will get a bail out cash injection reported in the snail, city to bid 6 mill + add on's to 10 mill for byram
+ may be allowed to stay on season long loan.
just what we need another loan player

It always seems to be the snail that makes up the 'bad news' stories for Leeds.